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Today in history

1789: Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.

1814: An American fleet scored a decisive victory over the British in the Battle of Lake Champlain in the War of 1812.

1936: President Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) by pressing a key in Washington to signal the startup of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator in Nevada.

1941: Charles A. Lindbergh sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he said “the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration” were trying to draw the United States into World War II.

1973: Chilean President Salvador Allende died in a violent military coup.

2001: In the worst single act of terrorism committed on U.S. soil, two hijacked jetliners crashed into New York’s World Trade Center, causing the twin towers to fall and killing nearly 2,800 people; a commandeered jetliner smashed into the Pentagon, claiming 189 lives; and a fourth hijacked plane with 44 people aboard crashed in western Pennsylvania.

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